Smart city lighting: Anne

Sustainder is an innovative Dutch brand that provides smart city solutions. Sustainder wanted to return to the heart of the smart city with its new street lighting: you can better manage and control a city with intelligent products.

Adjustable intensity

Anne is much more than energy-saving LED lighting. She can be controlled remotely via an API and responds to her environment. Anne’s four sides can be controlled independently of each other: that way, the light to a house can be dimmed, while a footpath can be illuminated for a passerby.

Modular

There’s even more of Anne’s intelligence to be found in 4 interchangeable elements that can be individually controlled. This interchangeable cartridge system provides space for different sensors. This creates the possibility to perform all sorts of measurements, for example, traffic intensity or particulate matter. New needs can be responded to by simply changing the cartridge. And it’s easy to upgrade to new smart technology.

Future-proof

Thanks to the modular construction, Anne has become a flexible IoT product, and a perfect platform for future solutions. This means Anne is more than ready for the future that Sustainder and Spark have in mind.

Either as the primary goal of a product development project, or merely as one of the constraints: cost price always matters. In some markets a lower cost price, which enables a low selling price as a key differentiator, may be essential for success. And in high-end markets, the higher margin that a low cost price allows may mobilize the stakeholders in the sales chain.

In the 1990s eco-design emerged. The product but then made from environmentally friendly materials and energy efficient. Eco-design was followed by “Design for sustainability”, eco-products in a sustainable context, designed for an optimal life cycle. The latest vision? Circular economy. And the message is: “Time’s up; our raw materials are running out and the viability of our environment is in danger.”